Song of Solomon 3:4
It was but a little that I passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother’s house, And into the chamber of her that conceived me.
ASV Byzantine Text
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In Context
3The watchmen that go about the city found me; To whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
Cross References
Proverbs 4:13Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: Keep her; for she is thy life.
Song of Solomon 1:7Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, Where thou feedest thy flock, Where thou makest it to rest at noon: For why should I be as one that is veiled Beside the flocks of thy companions?
Song of Solomon 7:5Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, And the hair of thy head like purple; The king is held captive in the tresses thereof.
Isaiah 45:19I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I, Jehovah, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
Isaiah 54:1Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 29:13And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 3:2-6
The Love of the Church to Christ. 1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? 4 It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him… Read the whole commentary →